Re: 30K schools fail to make AYP

[monicalucido@comcast.net]

Thanks, Jim.
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From: "James Horn" <ontogenyx@gmail.com>
> Conspiracy ideology?  It takes neither a conspiracy nor an ideology to
> discern the effects of a policy intentionally designed to produce widespread
> failure.  Any remaining doubters should read Elizabeth Debray's legislative
> history of NCLB, in which insiders like Judd Gregg openly admitted the
> rationale for impossible targets.
> The people who continue to doubt the facts about NCLB are the same ones who
> believe that the federal response to Katrina happened by accident, or that
> there was an intelligence failure, or that global warming is a myth, or that
> we don't torture, or that poor schools can be made better with another
> reform to replace all the others that have not worked to improve the lives
> of the bottom quartile.  It's called head up your ass syndrome.
> 
> Merry Holidays,
> Jim
> 
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:46 AM, <MONICALUCIDO@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > ...and even more will miss their targets this year with the AMO's rising by
> > 10%.  A perfect plan to make public schools  continue to look like crap. A
> > job well accomplished by the pro-NCLB crowd. Now, the pro-school closer Arne
> > Duncan can make even more cases as to why corporations should be used to
> > "manage" other need-to-be-closed schools. The whole privatization conspiracy
> > ideology doesn't seem that far fetched, now does it?
> >
> > Joe Lucido
> > Fresno
> >  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> > From: "Monty Neill" <monty@fairtest.org>
> > >
> > > According to Ed Week, nearly 30K schools failed to make AYP last school
> > year,
> > > not including NY and 2 other states - so the numbers will be higher.
> > That's a
> > > 13% jump from previous year. They don't say what percentage of US schools
> > this
> > > is, but says nearly 20% (will be over with NY, I assume) missed 2 years
> > in a
> > > row. Also say that <3,559 schools-4 percent of all schools rated based on
> > their
> > > progress-are facing the law's more serious interventions in the current
> > school
> > > year.>
> > >
> > >
> > > Report: 28% more schools missed NCLB targets in 2007-08 school year
> > > During the 2007-08 school year, nearly 30,000 U.S. schools failed to make
> > > adequate yearly progress as defined by states under NCLB, according to
> > research
> > > findings published in Education Week that compile state results released
> > > throughout the year. Nearly 20% of all U.S. schools have missed their
> > goals for
> > > two or more years and now face federal sanctions. Education Week (premium
> > > article access compliments of Edweek.org) (12/19)
> > >
> > >
> > > Monty Neill, Ed.D.
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